Aizawl, February 25 (PTI): Mizoram holds the dubious distinction of holding second position in the list of states where corporal punishment and humilitation of students in schools are rampant, second only to Assam. According to a study on Child Abuse India 2007, conducted by the UNICEF and Delhi-based PRAYAS (Save the Children) under the aegis of the Union Ministry of Women and Child Welfare Development, at least 90.86 per cent of students in the state are the victims of corporal punishment, second to Assam’s 99.56 per cent.
The menace leaves students not only traumatised for life, but also puts their education in jeopardy with female students suffering the most. Very recently a student of class nine fails to continue her studies after she was beaten on her bare bottom by a teacher in front of her class mates. Though the school authorities later apologised to her parents and sacked the erring teacher, the hapless girl refused to go to that school again and the trauma continued to haunt her in a new school she was admitted to.
Not all students, however, protest. Many parents prefer to remain silent, lest the academic careers of their wards are hampered, says Vanramchhuangi, leader of the Human Rights and Law Network, who had undertaken a study on corporal punishment in schools. Giving another example of barbarity in academic institutions, Vanramchhuangi says a boy, who failed in his test, was forced by the teacher to take his pants off and wear a skirt, considered the most humiliating punishment in the strict patriarchal Mizo society.
She says this particular incident has surpassed all incidents of such incivility even by Mizo standards because never ever was a Mizo boy was made to wear a skirt though threatened of such punishment by teachers. The study earlier referred to says that the percentage of victims of corporal punishment are 33.71 in the age groups of 5-12 and 13-14 and 32.59 in the age group of 15-18 in the state.
The study also finds that 84.64 per cent of the children in Mizoram are victims of physical abuse, again next to Assam’s 84.65 per cent and male child victims are more than the female victims in physical abuse. While 61.97 per cent of boys in the state are victims of physical abuse at home, Goa has the highest rate of domestic physical abuse at 80 per cent, the study says. - PTI
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The menace leaves students not only traumatised for life, but also puts their education in jeopardy with female students suffering the most. Very recently a student of class nine fails to continue her studies after she was beaten on her bare bottom by a teacher in front of her class mates. Though the school authorities later apologised to her parents and sacked the erring teacher, the hapless girl refused to go to that school again and the trauma continued to haunt her in a new school she was admitted to.
Not all students, however, protest. Many parents prefer to remain silent, lest the academic careers of their wards are hampered, says Vanramchhuangi, leader of the Human Rights and Law Network, who had undertaken a study on corporal punishment in schools. Giving another example of barbarity in academic institutions, Vanramchhuangi says a boy, who failed in his test, was forced by the teacher to take his pants off and wear a skirt, considered the most humiliating punishment in the strict patriarchal Mizo society.
She says this particular incident has surpassed all incidents of such incivility even by Mizo standards because never ever was a Mizo boy was made to wear a skirt though threatened of such punishment by teachers. The study earlier referred to says that the percentage of victims of corporal punishment are 33.71 in the age groups of 5-12 and 13-14 and 32.59 in the age group of 15-18 in the state.
The study also finds that 84.64 per cent of the children in Mizoram are victims of physical abuse, again next to Assam’s 84.65 per cent and male child victims are more than the female victims in physical abuse. While 61.97 per cent of boys in the state are victims of physical abuse at home, Goa has the highest rate of domestic physical abuse at 80 per cent, the study says. - PTI
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